real time
As it happens
Real time describes events processed or displayed as they happen, with no perceptible delay.
A real-time video feed shows action as it unfolds.
Real-time updates appear immediately.
In computing, real-time systems must respond within strict time constraints.
The phrase often appears as an adjective (real-time data) or adverb (tracking the storm in real time).
Exchange of spoken ideas
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- liveTo exist or dwell
- instantBriefest unit of time
- messagingSending written digital communications
video call · broadcast · streaming · engagement · response · feedback · interaction · dialogue
Delay in system response
- synchronousOccurring at same moment
- millisecondsThousandths of a second
- processingSystematic operation on data
- concurrencyOverlapping execution of tasks
streaming · embedded · throughput · bandwidth · clock · interrupt · polling · buffer
conversation
Exchange of spoken ideas
messaging · video call · broadcast · streaming · engagement · response · feedback · interaction · dialogue · exchange
latency
Delay in system response
- synchronousOccurring at same moment
- millisecondsThousandths of a second
- processingSystematic operation on data
concurrency · streaming · embedded · throughput · bandwidth · clock · interrupt · polling · buffer · queue
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- live televisionlive coverage, live events, live stream, live feed, live audience
- film timeflashback, flash forward, flash-forward, slow motion, slo-mo
- kernel settingsmodules, device drivers, memory management, scheduler, preemption
- real worlddaily life, lived experience, natural world, physical space
- time limitscountdown, stopwatch, deadline, clock, due date
real timebatch processing
Running queued jobs automatically
batch · asynchronous · store-and-forward · queued · deferred
real timerecorded
Captured for posterity
replay · time-lapse · prerecorded · slow motion · delayed
time, real, really, reality, unreal, times, timer, timely, surreal